A Child of the Pacific Northwest

The inspiration for Imogen's name came when we heard of the photographer Imogen Cunningham during my pregnancy. Simon and I knew instantly that if the baby was a girl, Imogen would almost certainly be her name.

I checked out Imogen Cunningham's photography collections from the library and studied her story online, so I knew she had lived in Seattle, but I was shocked to discover today that she also once lived in Port Angeles:

[She was born in Portland in 1883.] As a child, she and her family lived at the Puget Sound Cooperative Colony, a short-lived Utopian community in Port Angeles. In 1889, the family moved to...Seattle. -HistoryLink.org